POWERHOUSE has got the books you need in 2021!

Welcome to POWERHOUSE Bookstores! Now located in Dumbo, Park Slope, and Industry City! We're here to help you find your next favorite book, either by stopping in and browsing our stores in person, or by ordering through our website here! Check out handselected staff picks, curated categories, or search for a particular book. If it's in stock here, you can pick it up in store or have it shipped right to you. And of course, our knowledgeable staff is always here to help. Thank you for continuing to support our indie bookstores! 

Park Slope
1111 8th Av. Brooklyn, NY 11215 - Seven days a week from 11-6pm
email brittany@powerhousearena.com for recommendations and special orders

Dumbo
28 Adams St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 - Seven days a week from 10-7pm
email chris@powerhousearena.com for recommendations and special orders

Industry City
220 36th St., Building #2, Brooklyn, NY 11232 - Seven days a week from 10-6pm
email megan@powerhousearena.com for recommendations and special orders

Thank you!!
- POWERHOUSE Team

Spring is here and we’re celebrating at POWERHOUSE @ IC with a Spring Book Sale! We’ve set up a curated selection of sale books just outside our store for everyone to explore. The tables will feature unbeatable deals on fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, kid’s books, even some photo and art books! Books are priced as marked. Stop by to bargain hunt the sale table and peruse the rest of our wonderful collection!

We're celebrating Earth Day this month with a display of books about climate change, the Earth, and people who are helping the environment for children of all ages. Stop in to browse the selection as well as our displays of climate change and Earth Day books for adults! 

The latest from powerHouse Books!  A Carnival of Mimics is a new photo essay from acclaimed photographer and art critic Max Kozloff.

MORE new powerHouse books can be found here.

We’re LIVE with a brand new online site for the Covid-19 era!

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve finally arrived in the modern, post(ish)-pandemic era: our Brooklyn indie stores in Dumbo, south Park Slope, and Industry City—POWERHOUSE Arena, POWERHOUSE on 8^th, and POWERHOUSE @ IC—can now ship any book or bookstore item from the source directly to your door. Powered by IndieCommerce, please welcome www.powerhousebookstores.com.

We're a small family-run business, and have been stubbornly proud of our sole focus on the curated shopping experience, the engaging and thought-provoking programming, and slightly idiosyncratic way we’ve gone about bringing a bookstore into the areas of Brooklyn that have played important roles in our lives: Dumbo and Park Slope. And we're thrilled to have joined the vibrant and thriving network of creative enterprises in Industry City! 

But Covid-19 has changed everything, and like all of you we do not know how, when, or even if things will return to the way they used to be. The future? Maybe it will be masks and 50% capacity.  Maybe it will be by appointment.  But one thing for sure: online is where lives will be going, for better or for worse.

With that acceptance, we decided to bring a new capability to our approach to books and gifts, and we think this is a good 1.0 start. A lot of hard work has been done by our small bookseller and design team to get this new venture ready over the past few weeks: now you can use this IndieCommerce-powered site to order any book or gift item your heart desires, for you or for any loved  one—or even moderately tolerated person—anywhere in the world, by mail or by pickup.

We will be bringing our own curated items to this site regularly, so we hope you will stick with us; we appreciate your business and we will be here as long as you are here. 

With fortitude and grace,
Susanne & Daniel

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All gift certificates can be redeemed online or in-store!